Best of the Left Podcast

Today we listen and learn from those most deeply effected by the pattern of deaths of black men and women as they talk through their grief and anger

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Show Notes

Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill

Ch. 2: Act 1: Ferguson - @MumiaAbuJamal - Air Date: 11-25-14

Ch. 3: Song 1: The Survivors - Beasts of the Southern Wild (Music from the Motion Picture)

Ch. 4: Act 2: Ferguson is Selma - @mychalsmith on @Radio_Dispatch - Air Date: 11-26-14

Ch. 5: Song 2: Basique - Mickey Mouse Operation

Ch. 6: Act 3: New rules and time for action - @blackastronaut1 - Air Date: 11-26-14

Ch. 7: Song 3: Untitled - Zoe Keating

Ch. 8: Act 4: This is what hopelessness looks like - @Radio_Dispatch - Air Date: 11-26-14

Ch. 9: Song 4: Rivers and Roads - The Head and the Heart

Ch. 10: Act 5: The Illipsis- on Ferguson, riots and human limits - @jsmooth995 - Air Date: 11-26-14

Ch. 11: Song 5: Tobacco Road - Tobacco Road

Ch. 12: Act 6: Ferguson's Fall Out - @MumiaAbuJamal - Air Date: 11-29-14

Ch. 13: Song 6: Struggle - Ringside

Ch. 14: Act 7: When the System Provides No Remedies to Torture, You Must Overthrow It - @blkagendareport - Air Date: 12-3-14

Ch. 15: Song 7: Take a Look Around (In the Style of Limp Bizkit) [Karaoke Instrumental Version] - Karaoke in the Style of Limp Bizkit - Single

Ch. 16: Act 8: New York City takes to streets in wake of Garner ruling - Rachel @Maddow Show - Air Date: 12-3-14

Ch. 17: Song 8: Everyday (Single Version) - Carly Comando

Ch. 18: Act 9: Death for a Cigarette - @MumiaAbuJamal - Air Date: 12-4-14

Ch. 19: Song 9: If Not Now, When - Anchor & Braille

Ch. 20: Act 10: Prepare yourselves for the long haul - @TWiBnation - Air Date: 12-3-14

Ch. 21: Song 10: Protest song - Anti-Flag

Ch. 22: Act 11: Killer Mike's pre-show Ferguson Grand Jury speech

Voicemails

Ch. 23: Focus on the gasoline, not the match - Wade from Ft. Worth, TX

Ch. 24: Thoughts on the big picture of race relations in America - Marcus from Wichita Falls, TX

Ch. 25: Another blow to the psyche - Prof. Rambo from Georgia

Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics

Ch. 26: Final comments directing protesters to fergusonresponse.tumblr.com and #thisstopstoday

Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone

Produced by Jay! Tomlinson

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Direct download: 2014_12_05_Processing_Ferguson_Eric_Garner_and_Beyond_BlackLivesMatter.m4a
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Fri, 21 August 2015

(2015/08/21) The shift in culture we need (Climate)

Edition #948

Today we take a look at a variety of aspects of a new culture we should all be aspiring to where health, happiness and environmental sustainability are all in line with each other

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Show Notes

Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill

00:00:30 Ch. 2: Act 1: Alan Watts: What If Money Was No Object? - Tragedy & Hope (@TragedyandHopes) - Air Date: 8-30-13

Ch. 3: Song 1: N/A

00:03:23 Ch. 4: Act 2: Examining the real concept of prosperity - The biggest story in the world (a @guardian podcast) - Air Date: 4-17-15

Ch. 5: Song 2: Untitled - Zoe Keating

00:11:47 Ch. 6: Act 3: Josh Farley explains some of the tenets of degrowth - Extraenvironmentalist (@xenvironmental) - Air Date: 5-20-15

Ch. 7: Song 3: The Confrontation - Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin

00:22:48 Ch. 8: Act 4: Nature Rx - @nature_rx

Ch. 9: Song 4: N/A

00:24:12 Ch. 10: Act 5: A city goes ecomobile - The Urban Idea - Air Date: 12-24-13

Ch. 11: Song 5: N/A

00:36:57 Ch. 12: Act 6: A 3-Day Work Week Could Save Humanity - @RedactedTonight w/ @LeeCamp - Air Date: 12-23-14

Ch. 13: Song 6: No Sleep Till Brooklyn - Beastie Boys

00:39:12 Ch. 14: Act 7: David Suzuki explains how we would look to an alien studying us - Extraenvironmentalist (@xenvironmental) - Air Date: 5-20-15

Ch. 15: Song 7: Call of the Wild Ones: A Theme - Black Prairie

00:48:35 Ch. 16: Act 8: Visualizing a Plenitude Economy - Center for a New American Dream (@newdream) - Air Date: 9-15-11

Voicemails

00:53:25 Ch. 17: Free will and Liberalism - Gretchen from Minnesota

00:55:43 Ch. 18: A couple of things people don't understand about racism - Anthony from Illinois

Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics

00:58:09 Ch. 19: Final comments on Plenitude, Mr. Money Mustache and my story of health, happiness, frugality and the environment

Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone

Produced by Jay! Tomlinson

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Direct download: 948_The_shift_in_culture_we_need_Climate.m4a
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Tue, 18 August 2015

(2015/08/18) Understanding the schism in the progressive movement (#BlackLivesMatter)

Edition #947

Today we see what we can learn from the recent #BlackLivesMatter protests against Bernie Sanders and White Progressives™ and the reactions from some Sanders supporters that they sparked

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Show Notes

Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill

00:00:34 Ch. 2: Act 1: Black Lives Matter organizer 'Every presidential candidate should expect to hear from us' - Melissa Harris Perry (@MHPshow) - Air Date 8-15-15

Ch. 3: Song 1: Racism - The Mighty Sparrow

00:10:49 Ch. 4: Act 2: Interview with Marissa Janae Johnson (@rissaofthewa) after Seattle protest - This Week in Blackness (@TWiBnation) - Air Date: 8-11-15

Ch. 5: Song 2: Are You With Me - Vaux

00:21:11 Ch. 6: Act 3: How not to be an ally of racial justice - @citizenradio - Air Date: 8-10-15

Ch. 7: Song 3: Springish - Gillicuddy

00:31:39 Ch. 8: Act 4: On #BlackLivesMatter and Defending Bernie Sanders - Jay Smooth (@jsmooth995) - Air Date: 8-15-15

Ch. 9: Song 4: Tobacco Road - Common Market

00:36:07 Ch. 10: Act 5: A case of white fragility in the fight for racial justice - This Week in Blackness (@TWiBnation) - Air Date: 8-11-15

Ch. 11: Song 5: Hurt Feelings - Flight of the Conchords

00:47:49 Ch. 12: Act 6: Hey Naysayers, Allow Bernie Sanders to Offer You Proof That Black Lives Matter Helps Him - Majority Report (@majorityfm) - Air Date: 08-14-15

Ch. 13: Song 6: Hard To Explain - The Riptide Movement

00:54:31 Ch. 14: Act 7: .@JeanneTheoharis social movements cause discomfort - Melissa Harris Perry (@MHPshow) - Air Date 8-15-15

Ch. 15: Song 7: Jail - Plusplus

01:01:53 Ch. 16: Act 8: .@VanJones68 goes all in to explain the BlackLives Matter protests - This Week in Blackness (@TWiBnation) - Air Date: 8-12-15

Voicemails

01:04:35 Ch. 17: Examining deep rooted conservatism in the progressive movement - V from Western New York

01:06:19 Ch. 18: What people are forgetting about how racism works - David From Georgia

Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics

01:09:13 Ch. 19: Final comments on the different roles each of us play within a movement

#BlackLivesMatter & Racial Justice (admittedly incomplete) Round-up

Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone

Produced by Jay! Tomlinson

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Fri, 14 August 2015

(2015/08/14) What will it take to reverse this trend? (Privacy Rights)

Edition #946

Today we take a broad look at the effects of our diminishing privacy

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Show Notes

Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill

Ch. 2: Act 1: Illegal Spying Below: Activists Fly Anti-Surveillance Airship over NSA's Utah Data Center - Electronic Frontier Foundation (@EFF) - Air Date: 8-5-14

Ch. 3: Song 1: N/A

Ch. 4: Act 2: Surveillance Beyond the Patriot Act - @onthemedia - Air Date: 5-28-15

Ch. 5: Song 2: All Along the Watchtower - The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Ch. 6: Act 3: What happens if we have a 9/11 of privacy? - Common Sense (@dccommonsense) - Air Date: 7-14-15

Ch. 7: Song 3: Life Lessons Episode 1: 5 Ways To Avoid Your Bills - LunchMoney Lewis

Ch. 8: Act 4: What Is Systemic Racism? - Government Surveillance - @RaceForward - Air Date: 4-22-15

Ch. 9: Song 4: Le monde de contre jour - David Ari Leon

Ch. 10: Act 5: Data and Goliath: Bruce Schneier on the Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World - @democracynow - Air Date: 3-13-15

Ch. 11: Song 5: What Is Your Secret - Nada Surf

Ch. 12: Act 6: Preserve Anonymity, Stand Up For Domain Privacy via @EFF — Best of the Left Activism

Ch. 13: Song 6: This Fickle World - Theo Bard

Ch. 14: Act 7: The government and technology companies battle over encryption - Common Sense (@dccommonsense) - Air Date: 7-14-15

Voicemails

Ch. 15: Stop Killing our Trans sisters - Uhuru from Sweden

Ch. 16: A story of abuse and a call for a healthier discussion of sexuality - Anonymous

Ch. 17: Tea Consent as part of educational curriculum - Alex from Oregon

Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics

Ch. 18: Final comments asking for comments on Black Lives Matter and progressive infighting before the hiatus starts

Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone

Activism: Preserve Anonymity, Stand Up For Domain Privacy via @EFF

Take Action:

SIGN: "Preserve Anonymity, Stand Up For Domain Privacy” via the Electronic Frontier Foundation

Sources/further reading:

"Icann plan to end website anonymity 'could lead to swatting attacks’” at The Guardian

"Proposed Domain Name Rule Threatens Website Owner Anonymity” at Buzzfeed

Hear the segment in context:

Episode #946 "What will it take to reverse this trend? (Privacy Rights)"

Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich

Produced by Jay! Tomlinson

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Tue, 11 August 2015

(2015/08/11) Violence and injustice (Trans Rights)

Edition #945

Today we take a look at multiple forms of violence and injustice afflicting trans people as part of their daily lives

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Show Notes

Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill

Ch. 2: Act 1: Transgender Rights - @LastWeekTonight with @iamjohnoliver - Air Date: 6-28-15

Ch. 3: Song 1: Little People (Black City) (Live @ KEXP) - Matthew Dear

Ch. 4: Act 2: .@SBearBergman on how the natural order is reasserting itself for trans people - @SexOutLoudRadio - Air Date: 10-17-14

Ch. 5: Song 2: She said - Stray Dogg

Ch. 6: Act 3: This piece is called "Trigger Warning" - @Making_Contact - Air Date: 4-21-15

Ch. 7: Song 3: Credits - dustmotes

Ch. 8: Act 4: Transforming History - Retro Report - Air Date 6-15-15

Ch. 9: Song 4: Some Kind Of Mininova - Textile Audio

Ch. 10: Act 5: #TransHealthFail - Popaganda from @BitchMedia - Air Date: 8-6-15

Ch. 11: Song 5: Summer - Butano Bazaar

Ch. 12: Act 6: Support @MyTransHealth - Best of the Left Activism

Ch. 13: Song 6: Activism - Shihan

Ch. 14: Act 7: .@LaverneCox on Bullying and Being a Trans Woman of Color - @KepplerSpeakers - Air Date: 12-19-13

Voicemails

Ch. 15: Explaining the functions of inflation - Jeff from Sacramento, CA

Ch. 16: Open immigration is pro-people and good for the economy - Charlie From Cinncinatti

Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics

Ch. 18: Final comments on how to deal with things you don't understand

Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone

Activism: Support @MyTransHealth

Take Action:

AMPLIFY and donate to the KICKSTARTER to bring My Trans Health to as many cities as possible.

Additional Activism/Resources:

FOLLOW and amplify: #TransHealthFail

Sources/further reading:

"6 ways the health care system fails transgender patients” via Mashable

"Trans People Are Speaking Out About Their Horrible Experiences With Health Care” via .Mic

"It's hard being trans. It's even harder when you can't find a doctor. A new site hopes to fix that.” via Upworthy

Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich

Produced by Jay! Tomlinson

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Direct download: 945_Violence_and_injustice_Trans_Rights.m4a
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Fri, 7 August 2015

(2015/08/07) On Cosby and consent (Rape Culture)

Edition #944

Today we take a look at the accusations against Bill Cosby of serial rape, some of the underlying concepts behind consent and how rape culture creates #TheEmptyChair

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